Open AccessOn the evolution of the cosmic supernova rates
Author(s) -
Madau Piero,
Della Valle Massimo,
Panagia Nino
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01697.x
Subject(s) - physics , astrophysics , supernova , cosmic time , redshift , cosmic cancer database , galaxy , star formation , galaxy formation and evolution , epoch (astronomy) , astronomy , universe , physical cosmology , initial mass function , cosmology , dark energy
Ongoing searches for supernovae (SNe) at cosmological distances have recently started to provide a link between SN Ia statistics and galaxy evolution. We use recent estimates of the global history of star formation to compute the theoretical Type Ia and Type II SN rates as a function of cosmic time from the present epoch to high redshifts. We show that accurate measurements of the frequency of SN events in the range 0 < z < 1 will be valuable probes of the nature of Type Ia progenitors and the evolution of the stellar birth rate in the Universe. The Next Generation Space Telescope should detect of order 20 Type II SNe per 4 × 4 arcmin 2 field per year in the interval 1 < z < 4.